In November 2000, the European Union adopted a new directive that mandates all member nations to provide equal treatment to lesbians and gay men in employment.
Julius Genachowski, the FCC chair, is seeking to adopt guidelines that would ensure telecoms companies provide equal treatment of traffic travelling over the networks.
Schultz outlined the changes in a letter responding to requests from the EFF, Human Rights Watch, ACLU and others to provide "equal treatment and protection for all who use and depend on Facebook as a central platform for online expression and communication".
Senator Rick Santorum, Republican of Pennsylvania, and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, will be the co-sponsors of a bill that would eliminate the most contentious provisions while providing equal treatment for the charities.
The findings show that both countries appear to make efforts to provide equal treatment to domestic and foreign applicants for patents in terms of pendency, but domestic applicants seem to enjoy more certainty of the patent being granted within the pendency period than foreign applicants in both countries.
Cliff Stevenson of Mayer, Brown, Rowe &Maw, a London law firm, points out that the new labelling rules may fall foul of WTO rules that oblige countries to provide equal treatment to "like products", regardless of their method of production.America has long argued that GM and non-GM versions of the same food are essentially equivalent.
But South Africa is much more equitably multilingual than Zimbabwe: none of the official languages claims more than a fourth of South Africa's population.The inability of South Africa's government to provide equal treatment for its 11 official languages bodes ill for much poorer Zimbabwe, where the government remains in a state of near-fatal paralysis.
Google posted earlier today on its efforts towards building a workplace that provides equal treatment to all staff.
Table 2 summarises in which categories each of the four countries provide equal treatment for foreign seasonal workers.
The two-tier system does not provide equal treatment because it does not confer on same-sex relationships the status associated with marriage.
